Just three days before he serves as a role model for Iowa homeschooled children and their parents, Ted Cruz sent out a humblebrag tweet of a shirtless image of himself with badass tattoos carved across sculpted biceps and pecs.

Cruz, a potential 2016 presidential candidate, will do two speeches in Iowa on Tuesday – one to a crowd of homeschool parents in downtown Des Moines and one to Cerro Gordo County Republicans at a dessert reception in Mason City.

He’s not currently scheduled to do anything but those two events, other than some news interviews, aides told The Des Moines Register this morning.

The freshman U.S. senator from Texas, seems to be aiming his career path toward a White House bid, making his fourth trip to Iowa, home of the lead off vote in the presidential selection process. He’d never stepped foot in Iowa in his life until he came last summer to get acquainted with Iowa Christian conservative ministers at an event in Des Moines. At the annual CPAC gathering of conservatives in Washington, D.C. earlier this month, Cruz finished in second place in the event’s straw poll, after Republican U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, who is also a socially conservative U.S. Constitution-minded advocate for limited government.

U.S. Rep. Steve King, state Auditor Mary Mosiman, Iowa House Majority Leader Linda Upmeyer and Secretary of State candidate Paul Pate will also be at the Mason City event. Organizers have sold 150 tickets so far and expect to have close to 200, Haugland told the Register this morning.

At the homeschoolers’ event, other speakers include King, Bob Vander Plaats of the Family Leader and conservative talk show host Steve Deace.

Here’s the full schedule for the homeschoolers’ event, according to organizers:

11:55 a.m. – 12 p.m. – Opening prayer and introduction

Noon – 12:05 p.m. – Ana Deace sings the National Anthem

12:05 p.m. – 12:25 p.m. – Conservative talk show host Steve Deace

12:25 p.m. – 12:30 – Tamara Scott, one of Iowa’s two representative on the Republican National Committee, will speak on the common core education standards